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CCJ Publisher Rick Alan Rice dissects
the building of America in a trilogy of novels
collectively calledATWOOD. Book One explores
the development of the American West through the
lens of public policy, land planning, municipal
development, and governance as it played out in one
of the new counties of Kansas in the latter half of
the 19th Century. The novel focuses on the religious
and cultural traditions that imbued the American
Midwest with a special character that continues to
have a profound effect on American politics to this
day. Book One creates an understanding about
America's cultural foundations that is further
explored in books two and three that further trace
the historical-cultural-spiritual development of one
isolated county on the Great Plains that stands as
an icon in the development of a certain brand of
American character. That's the serious stuff viewed
from high altitude. The story itself gets down and
dirty with the supernatural, which inATWOOD
- A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliveranceis the
outfall of misfires in human interactions, from the
monumental to the sublime.The
book features the epic poem"The
Toiler"as
well as artwork by New Mexico artist Richard
Padilla.

Elmore Leonard Meets Larry McMurtry

Western Crime Novel

I am
offering another novel through Amazon's Kindle
Direct Publishing service. Cooksin is the story of a criminal
syndicate that sets its sights on a ranching/farming
community in Weld County, Colorado, 1950. The
perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm
equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal
property of individuals whose assets have been
inventoried in advance and distributed through a
vast system of illegal commerce.

It is a ripping good
yarn, filled with suspense and intrigue. This was
designed intentionally to pay homage to the type of
creative works being produced in 1950, when the
story is set. Richard
Padilla has done his usually brilliant
work in capturing the look and feel of a certain
type of crime fiction being produced in that era.
The whole thing has the feel of those black & white
films you see on Turner Movie Classics, and the
writing will remind you a little of Elmore Leonard,
whose earliest works were westerns.
Use this link.

EXPLORE THE KINDLE
BOOK LIBRARY

If you have not explored the books
available from Amazon.com's Kindle Publishing
division you would do yourself a favor to do so. You
will find classic literature there, as well as tons
of privately published books of every kind. A lot of
it is awful, like a lot of traditionally published
books are awful, but some are truly classics. You
can get the entire collection of Shakespeare's works
for two bucks.

Amazon is the largest,
but far from the only digital publisher. You can
find similar treasure troves atNOOK Press(the
Barnes & Noble site),Lulu,
and others.

World Wide Conspiracy

Who's What in the World of Worry

By RAR

In this edition,
we are dipping into X-Files territory and exploring the popular culture's
fascination with conspiracy theories and strange, unexplained phenomenon, which
may portend something significant about our future on the planet.

There is no real
single doorway to this labyrinth, just a Grand Central Station of intersecting
theories, speculations, and reports. Some are scientific and well-grounded, some
are mainstream media reports, and many are the wild amateur regurgitations of
the echo chamber of public paranoia that is a staple of YouTube, in all of its
sponsored channels.

There is no
particular rhyme-nor-reason to the way these various areas of interest are
presented on this page. We have left some hints as to which we take seriously,
and which we take less so, but the purpose of this survey is primarily to
provide a high altitude overview of those public fascinations that reflect who we are as
a people, and that are impacting the decisions we participate in making through
our democratic processes (In the U.S.).

Defining Conspiracy

To get
to the definition of "conspiracy", you must first consider its root word:
"conspire". Conspire can be used as a transitive verb, in which case it means
"to plot or contrive".

Or, conspire can be used as an intransitive verb, as in:

"to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an
act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement • accused of
conspiring to overthrow the government • conspired to monopolize and restrict
trade";

"to scheme";

or "to act in harmony toward a common end".

- Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Primary Conspiracy Themes

Conspiracy
theory comes in many flavors, but there are two general themes:

Humans are being controlled by malevolent forces

Nothing we are told, or have ever been told, by the mainstream media is
true

Malevolent forces includes everything from "The Illuminati" and governmental
institutions, to aliens from other worlds and other dimensions, to Satan.

Mistrust of mainstream media is an extension of the control wielded by
powerful, omnipresent forces, who are countered daily by the alternative media
broadcast via the internet, and particularly through YouTube.com.

All Conspiracies Lead to the
Illuminati, the Rothschilds, and the New World Order

When I was a kid there was another kid I
was growing up with whose father was devoted to the John Birch Society (JBS). Still around today,
the JBS is an ultra-conservative group that was founded in 1958, and was quite
popular among Cold War-era conservatives until mainstream conservatives like
William F. Buckley used his National Review to get the group tarred as
radicals, too far to the right to properly represent the conservative movement.

My parent's friend left this book called "None Dare Call It
Conspiracy", which was written by ultra-conservative radio personality Gary
Allen. Allen, like the speaker in this 1967 recording explaining the whole
history of "The Illuminati", an intellectual society found in Bavaria in the
second half of the 18th Century, believed that the root of all evil was the one
world government movement, which sounded to them like Communism. The mighty
House of Rothschild is behind it all, which is hard to argue against in terms of
that family's powerful history in the financial fortunes of world governments
over the past 250 years, beginning with the Napoleonic Wars.

Whether or not you buy this notion that a powerful cabal,
involving the powerful Rothschilds, the Freemasons, the Communists, and the
United Nations is attempting to rest complete control of the world, this
recording is a dynamite artifact of cultural history - like listening to your
wacky uncle going on about evil.
☺☺☺☺

Follow the Candyland path from
the genesis of modern conspiracy theory through the history of suspicion and
paranoia.

9/11: Conspiracy Live

The entire
realm of this thing we call "conspiracy theory" got rocket-fueled by the
September 11, 2001 event that we know as "9/11", that brought down The World
Trade Center buildings, destroyed a section of the Pentagon, and left a
suspicious smudge on the countryside of Pennsylvania. There heroic Americans
brought down their terrorist-hijacked jetliner, saving the nation from
experiencing the destruction of some additional national symbol.

One hardly needed to be steeped in
conspiracy theory to find a raft of anomalies in the 9/11 story, any one of
which makes the entire event seem seriously suspicious. For instance, how is that
airplanes - hardly more than hollow aluminum tubes - managed to slice right
through two of the most advanced pieces of architecture in the modern world and
turn 110-story buildings into dust? That is the official narrative, but clearly that is not what
actually happened. It was obvious to everyone on the scene, and covering the
story on national TV that day, that those buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.

That included Building 7 of the WTC, which was not struck by an airplane, but
somehow also came down, mysteriously comporting with the expectation of news
reporters, who seemed to know in advance that the building would "be pulled", even though the building suffered only fires contained to a few
floors. Building 7 was a key office space that housed federal investigators, the files from the ENRON investigation,
and New York City's emergency command center. In fact, many records of critical
importance to investigations were destroyed on 9/11, including records at the Pentagon into the investigation of trillions of
dollars of unaccounted-for Pentagon spending, which just happened to be stored
in precisely the area of the building that was destroyed by another hi-jacked
passenger jet, at least according to the official story.

Never in history have steel
structures buildings collapsed due to fire and crumbled into dust before ever
reaching the ground, and never have airplanes crashed and completely
disintegrated to nothing, as four airplanes supposedly did on that day. Use this
link at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIePXAFStmo to view a video that
offers a quick compilation of the anomalies in the 9/11 story that have
encouraged an increasingly large number of people to doubt the official
narrative.

That so much of what happened on
9/11 played out on live newscast puts the event in that rare category with the JFK assassination, where viewers reactions to viewing a traumatic and awful
event dramatically impacted the way viewers remember what they saw.

The National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) issued a report on 9/11 that does not stand up to scientific
scrutiny:

The 9/11 Building Collapse | Richard Gage
(use this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2QqxpYcvA ). Architect Richard Gage is
the spokesperson for the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and here
he delivers his usual presentation on the evidence for controlled demolition
of the WTC buildings. ☺☺☺☺☺

As much as 9/11 was an event with an official
narrative that challenged the laws of physics, it was also an event with
profound psychological impact:

9/11: The Myth and the Reality (use this
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXw3jJ3021o ). Speaking to the
Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, theologian and author Dr. David Ray
Griffin focused on the power of myth in mobilizing a society, and makes his
case that 9/11 was a planned operation. ☺☺☺☺☺

Colorado Public Television streamed The Demolition of
Truth: Psychologists Examine 9/11 - Broadcast Version (use this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXH-TaZEPq0 ). Here psychologists
discuss the reasons why just talking about 9/11 is uncomfortable for many
people. ☺☺☺☺☺

And there were winners in the whole event, and
people with clear motives:

JFK Assassination: Awakening

The JFK Assassination was the Pandora's Box of conspiracy,
opening the doorway to that strange dimension of interrelated agendas and
ambitions that leads to inhumane acts, atrocities, and cover ups. The murder of
JFK, and the subsequent murders of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King,
Jr., pretty much sealed, in the public mind, this notion that dark forces were
at work behind the scenes to alter human history.

Theories about the JFK Assassination include everything
from diabolical CIA operatives and murderous elected officials to aliens with
connections to the United States government and secret agendas.

HAUNTING WARNINGS FROM EISENHOWER AND KENNEDY

We all remember Eisenhower's speech,
upon leaving office, warning of the Military Industrial Complex. JFK took his
warnings several steps further, which in retrospect sound like a precursor of
his murder.

The Black Vault website is a vast library of government
documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and published on
line. It is the work of John Greenewald, Jr., who in 1996, at 15 years of age,
began "hammering the U.S. Government with FOIA requests to obtain information.
The Black Vault is the result of that more than two decade effort." Click on the
above graphic or use this link to visit
The Black Vault.

ANCIENT
ALIENS

Has
anything been more effective than the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" series
at mobilizing audiences to believe that everything we have been taught to
believe is wrong? Based largely on the disputed theories of researchers Erich von Däniken and Zecharia
Sitchin, Ancient Aliens encourages audiences to eschew mainstream science
and religion and open up to the possibility that humankind is a hybrid species
genetically engineered for Earth by alien humanoids. Moreover, the series
suggests that governments around the world have been complicit in a conspiracy
to cover up the truth about who "we" are. In that way, it is among the most
subversive programs ever presented on American television.

The Elder Gods Versus the Ancient Ones

When Erich von Däniken
began publishing his interpretations of various aspects of civilizations'
archaeological record, he literally changed the world. A former hotel worker
whose fascinations took him around the world to ancient sites that would become
known worldwide because of his writings - the Nazca Plains being a prime example
- von Däniken boldly proposed that Biblical references to God and to angels were
really to advanced extraterrestrials who tampered with life on "our planet".

Zecharia
Sitchin took von Däniken's basic thesis many steps further, as Sitchin's
claims all came from his own interpretations of ancient Sumerian cuneiform
tablets. There are many of those, but few who have deciphered their meanings -
and fewer yet who agree on the interpretations that have been done, including
Sitchin's.

His reading of the Sumerian tablets tells of an
advanced race of spacefaring giants called the Anunaki, who arrived on Earth
450,000 years ago to mine the planet's gold. They were trying to repair the
atmosphere of their home planet through Geo-engineering involving gold, which
has unique and powerful properties in terms of managing the sun's radiation and
conducting electrical charges.

On Earth, the Anunaki (the "Elder
Gods" in some references) encountered a race referred to as the "Ancient Ones",
which were reptilian humanoids native to Earth, which some believe explains why
reptilian iconography is so prominent in virtually every culture on our planet.
They were led by their Queen Tiamat, who is described in the Sumerian text as "a
great wicked serpent" or "mighty dragon". The Anunaki deposed the Ancient Ones,
but they apparently also interbred with them, because their joint DNA went into
the makeup of us, modern humans.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Is it
possible that this is what Carl Sagan was alluding to in his Pulitzer Prize
winning book "The Dragons of Eden", which describes the "reptilian cortex" at
the foundation of the human brain?

The triumphant Anunaki, according to Sitchin,
interbred with primitive humans to create a hybrid slave species to work the
mining operations. Continued breeding with humans created the race of Nephilim
referenced in the Bible, which were part of the reason the Anunaki created the
floods referenced in many ancient literatures, which wiped all but a few
families off the Earth and thus allowed humankind to begin fresh again,
uncontaminated.

The Anunaki story goes that there
was a split among them, after which most left the planet, while others literally
went underground, where they have continued to exert control of the human race
through royal bloodlines, "blue bloods" such as have historically ruled the
thrones of Europe.

Or, as others might have you believe, they exert
control over humans through the manipulation of a frequency matrix, which still
others believe is broadcast over planet Earth from our hollow moon. It
encourages humans to accept the reality they present. In that sense, these
shape-shifting, cross-dimensional reptile overlords are the ultimate incarnation
of "The Illuminati", comprising the most power families on the planet.

Surviving the Matrix

The Internet
of Things, smart devices, false reality, and loss of individuality: Max Igan of American Voice Radio, thecrowhouse.com,
and YouTube is the voice of reason, if you suspect that Cloud computing is
engineering human disability. Technology is robbing us of human life skills, and we
are being systematically dumbed down. Our future is a stressful meltdown, and
Igan is here to talk us through it, your spiritual guide and mentor of the
Internet. ☺☺☺☺☺

Chemtrails and Transhumanism

Elana Freeland is a spiritual warrior who researches the ionization of
the atmosphere, which she believes is taking place through the spraying of
aluminum, barium and strontium into Earth's lower atmosphere. To her, it is all
part of the "globalism" agenda, a "full spectrum dominance" that has
militarized university research in the "national security state". Freeland
suspects the Freemasons and other secret organizations are using ionization of
the atmosphere to produce extreme weather, and that they have agendas
involving vaccinations, genetically
modified organisms, water quality, immune system degeneration, acid oceans,
dying species, alkanized soil, mind control and targeting, Morgellons syndrome, and transhumanism, all
of which are connected in her world.
☺☺☺☺

Agenda 21/2030 and Sustainable Development

Agenda 2030,
which was initially known as Agenda 21, is a United Nations "sustainable
development" plan, adopted in 2015 and signed on to by something like 107 world
leaders. It sets
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that you can review by using that
link to the UN site. Clean water, educational opportunity, and economic equality
seem good enough, but to conspiracy theorists like Elana Freeland, Agenda 2030
is nothing less than an effort to create global communism, and redistribute
wealth, as Glenn Beck was going on about back in 2011. That probably only
sounds like a bad idea if you are wealthy. ☺

Chemtrails and Strange Orbs

So is this real?
That is the question we always ask in our modern age, whenever we encounter a
digital image of any kind. It is so easy to create convincing fakes of any kind
of phenomena, and in the internet age of content development people grab what
they find interesting and republish it for their own purposes, similar to what
we are doing with this edition. In this video below, a no-doubt well-meaning sky
watcher examines some interesting video. California skies are filled these days
with strange thick lines, exactly as shown in this video. We see what appear to
be four-engine commercial jets flying overhead and leaving these thick rivers of
white that do not dissipate, but rather stay in the cloud for hours, slowly
spreading a veil of particulate cloud matter. Some YouTube broadcasters claim to have visual evidence that these
chemtrail producing jets are not airplanes at all, but rather are holographic
images shielding orbs that are producing these trails.

This video below takes it one step further, with
orbs spotted in the clouds apparently shooting something additional into them.

Who knows if this video is legitimate? It plays into
a theory that chemtrails are the work of an alien civilization that is
Geo-engineering Earth to make it suitable for their habitation.

Morgellon's Syndrome

Thousands of
people in the world suffer from this strange "disease", dubbed Morgellon's after an Oakland scientists whose family
is afflicted with the syndrome found a reference in a 19th Century news article
about people exhibiting the same symptoms. The afflicted get skin lesions that
produce fibrous materials.

For years, sufferers were treated as if they have a
mental illness - that they scratch lesions into their skin, and scratch clothing
fibers into the lesions. Scientific research has shown that these fibers coming
from people's open sores are not a match for any other known fibrous material.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) did a study and
concluded that the disease is not real, but they treat it at the Mayo Clinic.
This video tells the story of a family afflicted by some strange phenomena that
remains unexplained.

Matrix and Reptilians

David Icke has been a pioneer in the world of conspiracy, and has worn
a few crowns over the years, but he has gotten his best traction with the
connection between the matrix (control device, which he feels is generated from
our hollow moon, which is really a space ship) and a shape-shifting Reptilian
race that controls the world's governmental and financial seats of power. The blue bloods, in Icke's
world, are hereditary rulers whose reptilian bloodline goes back to the beings who
engineered the human race. The Royal Family of England is largely comprised of
these extra-dimensional creatures (but not the bastard Prince Harry). ☺☺☺

Is Earth a Prison Planet?

Sometimes it feels like it, right?

While the David Icke's of the world believe that
humankind is imprisoned by a control matrix, there are other speculators who
share this theme of planet Earth being a holding pen of some kind. The story of
Scientology involves the stranding of negative spirits (Thetans) on Earth. And
there is no shortage of YouTube videos exploring similar themes.

Many of these have Christian themes, pitting
prison planet Earth as a battleground for control of the human soul. In this
video, the Gnostic Gospels are explored for reference to a control group of
aliens called the Archons, who are not dissimilar to David Icke's Reptoid
overlords. ☺☺☺

US Moon Landing wasFaked

Back in 1969,
the world watched enthralled as two American astronauts landed and walked out
onto the surface of Earth's moon. We saw it in grainy feeds from NASA, and
listened to the crackling communications between Mission Control and the three
astronauts aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft. But it wasn't too long before people
started questioning the entire venture, particularly after the last of the
scheduled Apollo flights were canceled, and our trips to the Moon stopped
happening. Rumors spread that NASA had conceded that they had no way to pass
astronauts through the Van Allen Radiation Belt and have them survive to journey
on to the Moon. The Soviets had five times more experience with space travel
than the US, and they never tried to send a man to the moon. And people began to
closely exam the NASA footage of Apollo landings, and began to wonder if a
master filmmaker could convincingly fake the whole thing. In 1968, Director
Stanley Kubrick had released 2001: A Space Odyssey,
which gave audiences of the era their sense for what a telecast from the moon
would look like. And it didn't help that the Apollo astronauts were defensive in
response to questions, and in the case of the ultimate astronaut, Neil
Armstrong, seemed to want to wipe the entire experience out of his memory. Years
later, while accepting an award at the White House, he uttered a cryptic comment
about a future when "truths protective layers" will be removed. ☺☺☺

Alien Structures on the Moon, Mars and Beyond

On the flip
side, there are also books detailing the Apollo moon landings and the
photography flyovers that revealed alien structures, and even current alien
activity on Earth's moon. All of the moon landing stuff is touched on in the
video below. ☺☺☺

Why Would NASA Fake a Moon Landing?

When
John F. Kennedy declared the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the
decade of the 1970s, he was speaking as the leader of the US in a Cold War with
the very advanced Soviet Union. It might have been helpful for the US to show
some technological muscle of its own by beating the Soviets to the Moon. But 50
years later, NASA is still talking about our inability to get past the Van Allen
Radiation Belt, or otherwise get beyond low Earth orbit. So how is it we went to
the Moon back in 1969? NASA claims to have lost the technology. They don't even
have the telemetry data from the Moon missions. Somehow they have lost the
scientific record of the greatest achievement of mankind. Is that possible, or
was there nothing to lose? ☺☺☺

Never A Straight Answer (NASA)

Reporters
covering the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have long
referred to the organization as "Never A Straight Answer". This video below
explains part of that.

Grammys, Isis Worship, and Satanic Symbols

Whoever "The
Fire Rises" is, he is very worried about the New World Order and the Illuminati,
and he was pretty convinced that this year's Grammy Awards was a parade of
Satanic imagery. Time's Up! ☺

Brides of Satan, Illuminati Sluts

According to
The Black Child, on YouTube, the entertainment
business is filled with Satanic actors, including a bunch of tarts who give away
their immoral predilections by doing "the chair dance". ☺

Black Ops Shooting in Las Vegas

In October
2017, someone executed automatic weapons fire on a group of concert goers at a
Country Music festival on festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay
Bay resort in Las Vegas. According to reports, 58 people were killed by a man
identified as Stephen Paddock, who
died on the scene of a gunshot wound.

The Las Vegas shooting is still under
investigation and authorities still have not come up with an explanation for
what happened. Multiple witnesses reported multiple shooters. Paddock was found
dead, surrounded by weapons and ammunition. He had somehow broken the thick
glass in his complimentary room without setting off security sensors, and opened
fire on the crowd hundreds of yards away across the street using rifles equipped with bump stocks. The audio from the event clearly
indicates shots coming from something other than a modified rifle.

YouTube conspiracy nuts went nuts over the
inconsistencies and contradictions of the accounts of this story. Here
conspiracy theory specialist Jeff Rense does an interview with a skeptic of the
early, official accounts of what happened. YouTube is filled with "researchers"
with "proof" that the Las Vegas shootings were not the work of a mad gunman,
with all suggesting that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad, and ISIS all had a hand in
the seemingly purposeless event.

Sandy Hook and Gun Control

In 2012, a kid
named Adam Lanza killed his mother
and then barged into Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and killed 20 school
children and six adults. It was a weird story from the first, with almost
nothing adding up, leading some to believe the entire event was a staged hoax.

For people who think Sandy Hook was a hoax, the
whole event was staged at a school that was no longer in use for the purpose of
mobilizing gun control activists. There are death certificates of the children
killed in the shooting available from the local jurisdiction, but that hasn't
stopped conspiracy theorists from questioning the whole story.

They note that parents of Sandy Hook children
leveraged the event to put together a for-profit organization to promote school
security systems.

This video compiles and reviews information
gathered at the time. It presents video information that makes it look like a
staged event, or possibly a drill of some kind, but not a real school shooting.
There seem obviously to be actors at work, ranging from the parents of murdered
children, to heroic neighbors, to that very strange coroner who suggested that
something could come crashing down on the Sandy Hook community as a result of
whatever happened at this school.

Who Is Dan Flynn and Why Is He Saying Those Weird Things?

There are a bunch of famous people named Dan Flynn.
There is a conservative writer by that name, and the head of U.S. Soccer is a
Dan Flynn. And then there is the Dan Flynn who has a YouTube channel and
publishes long (hour-plus) mish-mash videos that string together sections of
other videos to make some kind of a point, but not necessarily the ones he uses
to title his videos. These include:

Reptilians - Climate Change's Real Reason

Reptilians - The Alien Race Here on Earth

The Secret Underground Reptilian Cities of Lore

The Secret ET Alien Invasion

Space, It's All a Hoax - NASA = Never A Space Adventure?

Flynn's exercises in video editing leave a curious viewer
feeling mighty frustrated, because Flynn offers no connecting narrative to
explain why what he is showing fulfills the promise of each video's title. But
he does have a sense of humor. He uses brief videos of a cat saying "hey" in a
human voice, which brings things into a more comfortable perspective, and
individuals that pop up occasionally to ask if you are prepared for the alien
invasion. It is not quite entertainment, not original content, and certainly not
authoritative insight into the challenges confronting Earth;s future. But for
people who just like killing time listening to creepy alien stuff, it is there
for the taking.

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False Flags -The Holy Grail of Conspiracy

During the
Nuremburg Trials, Nazi police and military leader Hermann Göring spoke an amazing and
frightening truth:

"Naturally, the common
people don't want war, neither in Russian nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.

That is understood. But
the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger.

It works the same way in
any country."

___________________

Nothing
confirms the suspicions of conspiracy buffs more effectively than the
existence of "false flag" operations.

The concept has probably existed for as long as humans
have plotted to deceive others. Pirates on the open seas often flew
flags other than their own so they could approach targeted ships without
alarming them to prepare for attack.

The concept has also included forces attacking
themselves and blaming the attack on others for the purpose of
mobilizing action against the identified enemy.

Wikipedia provides the following list of examples of
false flag operations. Use the links provided to go to their Wikipedia
pages.

Masada Action and Defense Movement (French white supremacists, under
the guise of a fake extremist Zionist movement, conducted bombings of
Arab targets in France in an attempt to start a war between French Arabs
and Jews.)

Operation Northwoods

While there have been many "false flag"
events in history, it may be the event that didn't happen that has
resonated most dramatically in the popular imagination.

From Wikipedia:Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag
operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the
United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit
acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets,
blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war
against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document included the possible
assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the
high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating
violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The proposals were rejected by the
Kennedy administration.

The plan was drafted by
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent
to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the U.S. government's
anti-communist Cuban Project, Operation Northwoods was never officially
accepted; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then
rejected by President John F. Kennedy. According to currently released
documentation, none of the operations became active under the auspices
of the Operation Northwoods proposals.

The discovery of this previously
classified document planted in the public mind this suspicion that our
own government may manipulate us through violent false flag events.

____________

Operation Paperclip

After World
War II ended, the U.S. government excused the war crimes of hundreds of Nazi
scientists, as well as security officers, and the Surgeon General of the Third
Reich, who ran the Nazi vaccine program.

This fact of history seeded suspicions that
through that process the
United States government became guided by Nazi technologies and processes, and branches of our government
became characterized by Nazi philosophies. Here is a
PBS interview with author Annie Jacobsen who researched the subject for
her book "Operation Paperclip". She doesn't quite take the paranoia to the
extreme levels that do some, but she clearly documents the Third Reich influence
on American history.

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ALIEN DISCLOSURE

There
has been a bunch of conditioning going on.

That is a popular theme these days,
promoted especially by high-profile UFO celebrities, including former
Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge and Dr. Steven Greer. Both claim to have
been privy to conversations with high-ranking government officials that
have led them to believe that the U.S. government is slowly revealing a
long-standing interaction with alien intelligence.

DeLonge has a company called To the Stars
Academy, which purports to study the potential of interaction with
advanced extraterrestrials. And Greer has a cabal of followers who meet
in the Nevada desert to commune with extraterrestrials in a spiritual
sense.

Some feel that the government has worked
for years through filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to
condition the public to the pending disclosure. In fact, rumors persist
that Spielberg is in production on a government-sponsored television
series that would, over a few seasons, introduce the truth:
Extraterrestrial species are visiting planet Earth, and have been for a
long time.

Why It Might Be a Disaster to Discover Alien Life

YouTube is filled with guys like "Richie from Boston", who are not
actual researchers of anything, but rather people who weigh in with comment on stuff that shows
up on other people's YouTube channels, rather like we are doing with
this edition.

On the flip side - and this is worth a whole edition of its own -
YouTube also features many sites that are legitimately educational, or
that do their internet video analysis with objective scientific
foundation under-girding their conclusions.

Here is a video that explores all kinds of interesting points of
view, and falls somewhere between science and speculation. ☺☺☺☺☺

Interesting Question

Where
is everybody? The Fermi Paradox posed this question, and this video
below offers some possible answers.